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Albert de Courville(1887-1960)

Director
Writer
Producer

Albert de Courville began his career as a stage director in Great Britain before turning to films in the 1930s. He directed several Jesse Mathews musicals, including There Goes the Bride (1932), and a Constance Cummings comedy, Strangers on a Honeymoon (1936). In the 1940s he journeyed to New York and got back to his theatrical roots, directing several Broadway plays.

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Wild Boy

5.9

Director

1934

Things Are Looking Up

6.1

Director

1935

There Goes the Bride

6.6

Director

1932

Charing Cross Road

6.4

Director

1936

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Director

Mad Men of Europe
7.0
- Director
- 1940
Me and My Girl
6.9
- Director
- 1939
The Rebel's Son
5.9
- Director (uncredited)
- 1938
The Man with 100 Faces
6.2
- Director
- 1938
The Hidden Menace
6.5
- Director
- 1938
Oh Boy!
5.8
- Director
- 1938
Clothes and the Woman
- Director
- 1937
Strangers on a Honeymoon
6.2
- Director
- 1936
Doomed Cargo
6.7
- Director
- 1936
Charing Cross Road
6.4
- Director
- 1936
Things Are Looking Up
6.1
- Director
- 1935
The Case of Gabriel Perry
5.7
- Director
- 1935
Wild Boy
5.9
- Director
- 1934
This Is the Life
- Director
- 1933
Entre noche y día
- Director
- 1932

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Born
- March 26, 1887
- London, England, UK
Died
- March 15, 1960
- London, England, UK
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Stage: Directed / produced / wrote (w/Wal Pink, Edgar Wallace) "Pins and Needles" on Broadway. Musical revue. Lyrics by Ballard MacDonald, Rupert Hazel and Irving Caesar. Music by James F. Hanley and Frederick W. Chappelle. Orchestra under the direction of Charles Previn. Shubert Theatre: 1 Feb 1922-11 Mar 1922 (46 performances). Cast: Josephine Blythe, Phyllis Bryan, Muriel Cort, Elizabeth Coyle, Maisie Gay, Edith Kelly Gould, Rupert Hazell, Nan C. Hearne, May Hern, Teddy Knox (as "Performer"), Pamela Leroy, Geneva Marlowe, Tess Mayer, Florence McGuire, Joan Morris, Jack Morrison, Tommy Mostol, Jimmy Nervo (as "Performer"), Mary Philips, Harry Pilcer, Alice Pollard, Ewart Scott, Lillian Smith, Jane Taylor, Frances Upton, Amy Verity, Louise Wayne, Phyllis Wolmer. Produced by Albert De Courville.
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